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...woman, of all people-a hoydenish little kook named Dora Carrington, described by a friend as "a tin of mixed biscuits." Carrington met him at a house party in 1915. He offended her one evening, and next morning she crept into his bedroom, intending to cut off his beard by way of revenge. Instead, she fell in love with him, and moved in to take care of him for the rest of his life. That was fine with Strachey, who later fell in love with a beau of Carrington's named Ralph Partridge. Carrington married Partridge and shared...
Harvard's win over the midshipmen was marred by Rocky Jarvis' first singles defeat of the year. Jarvis finally fell, 2-6, 6-1, 6-3, to Dave Beard, Navy's number two player. After breezing through the first set, Jarvis appeared to lose his concentration. He had trouble controlling Beard's hopping serve and committed costly errors from the baseline...
Cowen and Beard combined to capture Navy's only doubles win. They edged Levin and Terry Oxford at the number one position...
After an elderly woman was mugged in an alley in San Pedro, Calif., a witness saw a blonde girl with a ponytail run from the alley and jump into a yellow car driven by a bearded Negro. Eventually tried for the crime, Janet and Malcolm Collins were faced with the circumstantial evidence that she was white, blonde and wore a ponytail while her Negro husband owned a yellow car and wore a beard. The prosecution, impressed by the unusual nature and number of matching details, sought to persuade the jury by invoking a law rarely used in a courtroom...
...begin with, the prosecution failed to supply evidence that "any of the individual probability factors listed were even roughly accurate." Moreover, the factors were not shown to be fully independent of one another as they must be to satisfy the mathematical law; the factor of a Negro with a beard, for instance, overlaps the possibility that the bearded Negro may be part of an interracial couple. The 12 million to 1 figure, therefore, was just "wild conjecture." In addition, there was not complete agreement among the witnesses about the characteristics in question. "No mathematical equation," added the court, "can prove...